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ALAUDA CRISTATA. 
CRESTED LARK. 
(Prats 15.) . 
Alauda senegalensis cristata, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 362 (1760). 
Alauda cristata, Zinn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 288 (1766); et auctorum plurimorum— - 
Gmelin, Scopoli, Latham, Temminck, Naumann, (Bonaparte), (Degland § Gerbe), 
Newton, (Dresser), &c. 
Alauda cochevis, Mill. Natursyst. Suppl, p. 134 (1776). 
Alauda senegalensis, Mill. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 187 (1776). 
Alauda matutina, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 40 (1783). 
Alauda undata, Gimel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 797 (1788). 
Alauda galerita, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 524 (1826). 
Galerida cristata (Zinn.), Bote, Isis, 1828, p. 321. 
Lullula cristata (Zinn.), Kaup, Nat. Syst. pp. 92, 192 (1829). 
Galerida viarum, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch. p. 315 (1831). 
Alauda chendoola, Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1831, p. 119. 
Heterops cristatus (Linn.), Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Mise. p. 84 (1844). 
Certhilauda chendoola (Franklin), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. xiii. p. 962 (1844). 
Certhilauda boysii, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. p. 41 (1846). 
Galerida chendoola (Franklin), Blyth, Cat. As. Soc. Mus. p. 183 (1848). 
Galerida abyssinica, Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 
Galerida senegalensis (Gmel.), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 
Galerida boysii (Blyth), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 
Galerita cristata (Linn.), Cab. Mus, Hein. i. p. 125 (1851). 
Galerita theklae, Brehm, Nawmannia, 1858, p. 210. 
Galerida arenicola, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 58. 
Galerida brachyura, Tvistram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 485. 
Alauda cristatella, Heuglin, fide Cab. Journ. Orn, 1868, p. 223. 
Alauda (Galerita) arenicola?, Tristram, var. fusca, Blanford, G'eol. § Zool. Abyssinia, 
p- 387 (1870). 
Alauda marginipennis, Pr, Wiirt., fide Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr, p. 681 (1871). 
The Crested Lark probably visits our islands more frequently than is 
supposed ; for partly owing to its habits and partly to its resemblance to 
the Sky-Lark it is often overlooked. It was first recorded as a British bird 
in 1836 by an anonymous writer in the ‘Dublin Penny Journal,’ who 
asserted that he had shot an example not far from the Irish capital. 
Examples have subsequently been obtained in this country, which render 
its claim to be considered a British bird complete. The first example of 
this species obtained in England was recorded in the second edition of 
Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds, and was killed at Littlehampton, in Sussex ; but 
the precise date does not seem to be known. Another example was 
obtained in the same county, at Shoreham, by a bird-catcher, on the 20th 
of October, 1863 (Dawson Rowley, ‘ Ibis,’ 1864, p. 224). Five examples 
